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Thursday, July 18, 2013

Australia's Lord's Record in the Ashes Series




Ashes Tests: 34 (England won 14, Australia won 6, with 14 draws - including the drawn Centenary Test of 1980)
First Ashes Test: 21-23 July 1884. Two years after the famous "obituary for English cricket" was published in the Sporting Times, England won by an innings and five runs.
Highest Ashes total: 729-6 declared by Australia in 1930, in reply to England's 425, setting the tourists on their way to a seven-wicket win.
Lowest Ashes total: 53 by England in 1888, when WG Grace was the only Englishman to reach double figures in both innings as the hosts were skittled for 53 and 62.
Highest individual Ashes score: 254 by Don Bradman in that epic Aussie innings in 1930. The next highest came eight years later, as England captain Wally Hammond made 240
Best Ashes bowling (innings): 8-38 by Australia seamer Glenn McGrath on his first visit to Lord's as England were skittled for 77 in the rain-affected second Test in 1997, which was drawn.
Most Ashes wickets: 26 by McGrath, who took full advantage of the Lord's slope in his three Test appearances there - 1997, 2001 and 2005

Classic Ashes match - Second Test, 1972

The second Test at Lord's in June 1972 will always belong to a remarkable debutant - Australia's Bob Massie.  

The 25-year-old right-arm swing bowler from Perth, Western Australia, was selected for his Test bow at the home of cricket after England had won the first Test at Old Trafford against an Aussie side who had not won a Test for over 30 months

Bob Massie finished with match figures of 16-137 - at the time, the third best in Test history after Jim Laker (19-90 for England against Australia in 1956) and Sydney Barnes (17-159 for England against South Africa in 1913)

Scorecard

England 272 (AW Greig 54, RAL Massie 8-84) and 116 (Massie 8-53)
Australia 308 (GS Chappell 131, JA Snow 5-57) and 81-2 (KR Stackpole 57 not out)
Australia won by eight wickets 

 


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